Documentation for components and cmake_find_package generator

[danimtb]

Docs for conan-io/conan#7108

[jgsogo]

I know some of these comments are for the PR to the client itself... regarding this one, I think these are the places that need to be modified 👍

[jgsogo]

I would expect previous variables (<PKG-NAME>_INCLUDE_DIRS, <PKG-NAME>_SYSTEM_LIBS,...) to be available too, so "if using components these variables will be added to the ones listed before:":

[gmikhaile]

Trying new components feature, seems like I miss some detail.
I've created a project which has two targets, core.dll and runner.exe. Core.dll depends on Qt5::Core. Runner.exe depends on core.dll.

Also I've created a conan recipe conanfile.py.

I defined qt in requirements:

def requirements(self):
        self.requires("qt/e5.12.4@mikhail/testing", private=False)

In package_info I use components:

def package_info(self):
    self.cpp_info.components["core"].libs = ["core"]
    self.cpp_info.components["core"].requires = ["qt"]
    self.cpp_info.components["runner"].requires = ["core"]

On build I have error:

File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\conans\client\installer.py", line 571, in _call_package_info raise ConanException("%s package_info(): %s" % (str(conanfile), e)) conans.errors.ConanException: lexer/1.0.0@mikhail/testing package_info(): Package require 'qt' not used in components requires

I assume I miss some detail.

Link to the project

I would appreciate any advice or reference to read about.

[danimtb]

There is an example here https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/conanfile/attributes.html#cpp-info

self.cpp_info.components["crypto"].requires = ["zlib::zlib"]  # Depends on all components in zlib package

In your case, if you want a component to depend on the whole qt package requirement you will have to specify:

self.cpp_info.components["core"].requires = ["qt::qt"]

Please try that and let me know if it works. Thanks for trying this new feature!

[gmikhaile]

There is an example here https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/conanfile/attributes.html#cpp-info

self.cpp_info.components["crypto"].requires = ["zlib::zlib"]  # Depends on all components in zlib package

In your case, if you want a component to depend on the whole qt package requirement you will have to specify:

self.cpp_info.components["core"].requires = ["qt::qt"]

Please try that and let me know if it works. Thanks for trying this new feature!

Thank you! It did help!